On Thu, 2021-11-25 at 17:21 +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 25/11/2021 16.50, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > As a side note, maybe ebuild should add sanity checks (like those from > > glibc) to > > prevent downgrades, otherwise people could still accidentally hit the > > issue > > You might have valid use cases to downgrade mysql, if you are okay not > preserving data. I'd assume it's a common knowledge that downgrade of > any data store, be that database or likes like elasticsearch, will > corrupt the data. > > To make it actually useful I think we'd need new EAPI feature > 'downgrade-protection', that unless is explicit ignored like > --ignore-downgrade-protection mysql, it would prevent it from happening. > > -- Piotr. >
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.34-r2.ebuild#L643
